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pale broad upright forked scales in the middle and narrower 

 dark ones at the side ; clypeus pale brown ; palpi and proboscis 

 deep brown ; antennae deep brown, basal segment paler brown. 



Thorax brown with dense small narrow-curved golden scales, 

 except for two parallel dark bare lines ; scutellum brown with 

 narrow-curved pale scales; those in front of the scutellum on 

 the mesonotum also pale ; metanotum pale brown ; pleurae brown 

 with a few patches of small flat grey scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal creamy patches, almost 

 bands, but sometimes absent ; densely clothed with pale hairs ; 

 venter grey. 



Legs brown with bronze reflections, the apex of femora pale, 

 the under side of all the tarsal segments pale in some lights ; 

 ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings with long fork-cells, the first sub-marginal very much 



Fig. 183. 

 Wing of Culex salinarius. ? . Coquillett. 



longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base much nearer the base of the wing, its stem rather less than 

 one-fifth the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior less 

 than one-half the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein much 

 longer than the mid, nearly twice its own length distant from it. 



Halteres pale ochreous, with pale scales on the knob. 



Length, — 3 • 5 to 4 mm. 



$ . Palpi very dark brown ; a pale spot below at the 

 penultimate segment ; two last segments with black hair-tufts, 

 and also a hair-tuft at the apex of the antepenultimate. Fore 

 and mid ungues unequal and uniserrate ; hind equal and simple. 



There are now and then traces of pale scales on the apices of 

 the abdominal segments as well as basal. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat.— Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. (E. P. Felt) ; Newark Marsh, 

 N.J. (J. B. Smith) ; Branford, New Haven, Connecticut (H. L. 

 Viereck). 



